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Unions and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 22 of Human Resource Management in a Business Context (2nd Edition 2004) by Alan Price - published by Thomson Learning
Contents
Objectives
- Debate the concept of collective employee relations.
- Provide an overview of formal employee relations, including the role of trade unions.
- Evaluate comparative employee relations in a range of developed countries.
- Draw lessons from comparative employee relations.
Collectivization and confrontation
Employee relations in North America
Employee relations in the UK
The Employment Relations Act (1999)
The European Union
German employee relations
Employee relations in Australia and New Zealand
Japanese and east Asian employee relations
Organizations and employee relations
Employee relations strategies
Summary
Employee relations is a relatively new term which broadens the study of industrial
relations to include wider aspects of the employment relationship, including non-unionized
workplaces, personal contracts and socio-emotional, rather than contractual, arangements.
This is an area with diverse ideological under-pinnings and political ramifications.
Governments have taken an active part in determining its conduct. In Europe, harmonization
is leading to the establishment of works councils across the EU, giving a new role for
collective representation.
Further reading
Industrial Relations by Mike Salaman (4th edition published by FT/Pitman in 2001),
Employee Relations in Context by David Farnham (2nd edition, CIPD 2000) and
Employment Relations by Ed Rose (FT Prentice Hall, 2000) all provide good
overviews of the field. International and Comparative Industrial Relations edited
by Greg Bamber and Russell Lansbury (published by Sage Publications 1998) compares
different countries.
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Human Resource Management in a Business Context
2nd Edition 2004
by Alan Price
Published by Thomson Learning ISBN 186152966X
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